Mr. Scot

Watson is established, but Lawrence is younger and significantly cheaper on a rookie contract. It would depend heavily on your evaluation of Lawrence. If you think he could genuinely be as good as Watson, it becomes a real debate.

Will someone make the Jaguars an offer they can't refuse? The most intriguing potential suitor for 2021 is the Panthers. Carolina holds the eighth overall pick. If they package that pick with several other selections in an effort to keep Lawrence in close to Clemson, will that be enough to get the Jaguars to pull the trigger? No, I don't buy that the Panthers will do this. It's pure speculation, but so was Newton's "bold prediction" and people went apesh-t over that. What we'd have to give up just to get to number two or number three would probably make me cringe. Can't imagine what it would take to get to number one.

You know, it's pretty stupid to keep this schtick with Marty already fired. You can't come up with something new?

Aaron Wilson said the Dolphins are "a popular team on his personal wish list". Also mentioned that former teammate Kareem Jackson was trying to recruit him to Denver.

Not sure if it's another player who you're referring to, but that particular question was about James Bradberry. At the time Bradberry departed, Ron and Marty were still firmly in place.

A good number of people on here called last year a half-assed effort at rebuilding and complained that we didn't go all in. Did they have a point? One thing I'd say is if Rhule and Fitterer really do see this as rebuilding time, that would make the answer to the question of whether Tepper was transitioning from "patience" to "win now" a no.

Talking about his release, Tre Boston says he was told by the Panthers that it's "rebuilding time". While that seems like an obvious statement, I still find it kind of interesting that they framed it to him this way. And it brings up a question in my mind. Matt Rhule is in his second year as head coach, but year one happened with Marty Hurney as GM. Reports said that Marty believed the team could win now rather than just rebuild, which possibly may have led to some of the reported clash between Marty and Rhule. So with a new GM that shares Rhule's vision now in place, would it be more correct to consider this season year two of the rebuild, or is it really year one?

Thanks. I know guarantee things frequently have a date attached. I wonder if there's one attached to this other than the start of the league year.

I hadn't made the connection but yeah, their OC is Pat Shurmur. He was the OC in Minnesota for Teddy's last two seasons there.

Heck, I'm not the world's biggest Jon Gruden fan but even I found QB Camp entertaining. Add in that Schwartz is pretty cool.

You know the cap stuff better than I do. Is there much of a difference between cutting them and trading him? (always heard those two things had the same effect)

Aaron Wilson's "quarterback limbo" article had some info on teams that he was interested in.

I'd agree about Matt Rhule. I don't know that we have a read on Scott Fitterer yet.

Interesting. Where'd you see that?

Eagles letting go of DeSean Jackson...

The NFL is rarely kind to nice guys.

Seeing speculation that Matt Milano is gonna be testing free agency. He falls into the category of "guys I'd love for us to sign but I don't know if we can afford". (for the record, there's a pretty big number of guys who fit that description)

Like us?

That's not an easy thing to do on an eleven man squad

College systems factor in too. I remember reading an article some years back from an analyst who said that colleges moving to more one read systems and favoring running quarterbacks was going to contribute to a severe shortage of great quarterbacks in the NFL. I don't remember when that was, but if it was written sometime between the late 2000s and the early 2010s, that guy now looks like a genius.

If the Texans do an about face and say he's available, there's gonna be way more than two.

I'd say it was already a need even if we kept him.

I remember. I'm primarily just talking about former Panthers though. If they succeed with that lineup, it kind of says something about our former coaching.

That'd put Star Lotulelei, Vernon Butler and Kawann Short all in one rotation.

I've seen a lot of people say this is a great draft for OL.